Uranium Mill in Colorado Gets License

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Source: NY Times

DENVER — Colorado regulators on Wednesday approved a license for the first new rock-crushing uranium mill to be built in the United States in more than 25 years to make fuel for nuclear power plants.

The plan still has many hurdles to overcome, including transportation and air emissions permits, and opponents said they would keep up their fight as well.

But the approval of a license to handle radioactive materials is still a big step forward for a plan to bring back a storied, deeply controversial industry that boomed across many corners of the West before crashing in the 1980s.

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Within five to ten years, renewable energy technology will become cost effective to replace oil and coal as energy sources. The corporations are in a hurry to get billions committed to nuclear energy before people realize that nuclear power plants are not only environmentally dangerous, but a huge waste of money.